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MOVING THE MUSEUM /// THE ARAB SPRING /// A LUCKY CHILD THE GEORG E WASHINGTO N UNIVERSIT Y MAG AZINE SPRING 2014 GW NEWS AD TK # ŗ''ĕ) 2ŗ*0-/4-ŗ.#$)"/*)ĀŗĘ*""4ŗ*//*(ŗ*ð -.ŗ)ŗ )/$$)"ŗ'*/$*)ŗ%0./ŗ ./ +.ŗ!-*(ŗ *-" ŗ.#$)"/*)ŗ)$1 -.$/4Ď.ŗ(+0.Āŗ( -$)ŗ ŗ-*..Āŗ/# ŗ $)*')ŗ (*-$'Āŗ# ŗ#$/ ŗ*0. 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Dempsey 60 / Alumni News 46 / The Arab Spring: Three Years Later As the echoes of the sweeping reformist movement continue to reverberate, three faculty members take a look at the region today. / By Tara Medeiros / HOMAS BUERGENTHALHOMAS T On the cover: 52 / A Lucky Child Original comet art: ESA– Law professor Thomas Buergenthal rose from the ashes of the Holocaust to become an architect of C. Carreau; illustration by COURTESY international human rights law. / By Jamie L. Freedman / John McGlasson gwmagazine.com / 1 FROM THE EDITOR editor Heather O. Milke, MBA ’02 managing editor Danny Freedman, BA ’01 associate editor Jamie L. Freedman, MA ’96 assistant editor Ruth Steinhardt contributors GW Today staff: Brittney Dunkins, Behind the Scenes Lauren Ingeno, James Irwin, Julyssa Lopez, Rachel Muir Preparation for this edition of GW Magazine afforded us the INTERNS opportunity to visit three sites relating to the opening of The George Kelly Danver, Rebecca Manikkam university photographer Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. Jessica McConnell Burt First, we observed the meticulous packing and moving preparation photo editor at The Textile Museum building on S Street NW, where the museum William Atkins closed to the public in October. It will reopen later this year as part of dESIgN The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum GW Marketing & Creative Services a rt directors at its new home on the Foggy Bottom Campus. Dominic Abbate, BA ’09; We also visited GW’s Virginia Science and Technology Campus, John McGlasson, BA ’00, MFA ’03 where a newly built conservation and study center will house president of the university expanded museum storage and workspace. Last, we received a hard- Steven Knapp hat tour of the in-construction museum home on campus at 21st and vice president for external G streets. relations Lorraine Voles, BA ’81 In this and previous editions, we have documented the move of The associate vice president for Textile Museum as well as another part of the museum, the Albert H. communications Small Washingtoniana Collection. I hope you are impressed with the Sarah Gegenheimer Baldassaro caliber of the individuals as well as the assets of both of these groups. GW Magazine (ISSN 2162-6464) Similarly, I hope you are equally impressed with the topic of this is published quarterly by the Division of External Relations, the George edition’s cover story. Astrobiologist Pascale Ehrenfreund is part of Washington University, Rice Hall a European Space Agency mission to land a satellite onto a comet to Suite 501, Washington, D.C. 20052. Our phone number is 202-994-6460; fax study the origin of life. Dr. Ehrenfreund is just one of so many leaders 202-994-5761; email [email protected]. with profound skill and applied knowledge in a particular area of poSTmaSTER Please send all expertise here at George Washington. change-of-address notices to GW Magazine, GW Alumni Records Office, In this issue, we also employed three of our top Middle East experts 2100 M St., N.W., Suite 315, Washington, to provide an at-a-glance look at the state of the region, three years into DC 20052. Notices can also be sent to us online at www.gwu.edu/~alumni/update/, the Arab Spring. And my note would not be complete without mention via email to [email protected], or by of professor Thomas Buergenthal, a former judge at the International phone at 202-994-3569. Periodicals postage paid at Washington, D.C., and Court of Justice, in The Hague, who shares his wrenching story of additional mailing offices. surviving the Auschwitz concentration camp at 10 years of age. Opinions expressed in these pages are those Stay tuned in future editions for more coverage of other amazing of the individuals and do not necessarily GW community members as well as the much-anticipated opening of reflect official positions of the university. © 2014 The George Washington University the museum. The George Washington University is an equal opportunity/affirmative Heather O. Milke action institution. WILLIAM ATKINS editor Volume 24, Issue 3 gwmagazine.com / 3 POSTMARKS Fifteen of us active-duty Navy of Maryland, retire from the and Air Force men were enrolled Medical School Faculty of the Looking Good in the School of Medicine & University of Maryland in 2004 Health Sciences. We were fresh (after serving 26 years), and from service in the Vietnam War continue to be on the faculty and were chosen by the military of the Johns Hopkins School “tracksters.” With the aid of the to further our education. of Medicine, Department of athletics department, we created Military uniforms, ROTC, and Psychiatry, and maintain an a track team that year. Please all references to the military active psychotherapy practice. In refer to the 1955 Cherry Tree (p. were banned on campus. We my mind I owe this all to GW, my 205) for further details. By the stood out, however, as we all had alma mater, and to that “can do” way, I ran the mile and the two- regulation military haircuts in guy, John Lobuts. mile events that spring. the hirsute era of the ’70s. Stuart A. Tiegel, BS ’69 Rabbi A. James Rudin, BA ’55 I can still hear the echoing Havre DeGrace, Md. New York cries of “warmonger” and “baby killer” shouted at us as we traversed the campus. Tolerance The ACA Explained Operation Education and diversity did not extend to I enjoyed the article I noted in the recent issue an us. The concept of hate the war article discussing Operation but love the warrior was not, it about the Affordable What a positive and Education and veterans. I am a seems, going to be in vogue for Care Act in the latest 1975 master’s graduate of GW some 35 years. I am happy that at issue of GW Magazine, wonderful change. The who started at the then small, GW that time has finally come. magazine is a jewel. off-site campus of GW in the Jeffrey Purtle, BS ’81 but I was hoping to see Hampton Roads area (circa Pratt, Kansas some information about Those who designed the new 1971-72), followed by a dedicated magazine deserve much credit. year at the main campus. Being After receiving my latest GW important but less well- I’m sure there have been and military, I was finally able to take Magazine (Fall 2013) on the publicized parts of the will be many letters reflecting the time away from military duty theme of veterans, I knew it was ACA. considerable surprise and to complete my master’s. time to write to you. As a lowly satisfaction. I feel that GW was very E-2 in the U.S. Army, stationed As part of the ACA, the William A. Morgan, BA ’77 veteran friendly at that time. in the Pentagon in 1967 during Elder Justice Act was enacted Washington, D.C. The interaction among a variety the Vietnam era, I needed a to protect America’s elderly of military studying for their break. I was drafted after having community from abuse, neglect, I’ve been intending since I got degrees together with what I my share of college failures in and fraud—all of which are a the summer 2013 GW Magazine shall call younger students was New York. A career I thought I growing trend in the United to tell you how much I like the very rewarding. It was a great was headed toward fell through. States. The National Background changes you’ve made. This is experience that enabled me to I got drafted, wound up in D.C., Check Program is one initiative; probably the first time I really move onward career-wise, both and knew it was time to figure it provides grant funds to paid attention to the magazine in and out of the military. the future out. I registered for states to upgrade or create a and actually looked through it Being fully retired for 10 several off-campus courses background check process for cover to cover.

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